London has not allowed the necessity for using a lot of sandbags to "get it down." According to "The Times," a number of shops which have been forced to sandbag their premises have utilized the services of their art departments to some effect, Sandbag barricades have been decorated in various colours, some a shade of green relieved by a white stripe to give it greater selling appeal. Less enterprise ing concerns have treated their sandbags with damp-proof concoctions, and others again have covered them with a thin layer of cement, which has had the effect of making the sandbags weather-proof and at the same time giving a certain strong-and-silent, wartime appearance to the whole establishment, Other firms have planted rows of flowers in boxes on the tops of their sandbags, and still others have placed vases of flowers in conspicuous positions along the barricades. The result, on the whole, has been most pleasing. "The Times" waxes critical over some of the sandbagging in Bond Street, the mecca of the menied shopping classes. There, apparently, sandbags have not been treated as aesthetically as they deserve; for chickweed has been seen growing out of some of them. SI who noticed a sandbag in the maginot Line had been placed with the seam dytwards instead of inwards! Nevertheless, Bond Street will have to go a long way before it equals Shanghai in the sandbag barricades hurriedly erected during the first war months of 1937. Office-goers noted at that time that within a fe days the sandbags outside their places of bus ness sprouted handsome crops. Chickweed was nothing to them. There remains still to be explained a tradition which has grown up in one of the buildings along the Bund, that sweet potatoes were growing in some of their sandbags, Nothing less could have accounted for the strange increase in size of these defences. However, no one will ever know, as the sandbags suffered the fate of all the others along the Bund, disappearing in one of those strange all-night cleaning campaigns which afflicted Shanghai, just as soon as it realized that it had nothing serious to worry about, Allied War Aims Mr. Neville Chamberlain's review of the war, given in a broadcast on Sunday evening, is just as encouraging as it was anticipated that it would be. He has in no way sought to minimize the weight of the strokes the Reich has been able to make against the Allies, and the Prime Ministex's confidence seems to be borne out by London bookmakers who are freely offering ten to one that the war will be ended within eighteen months. Of importance is the restatement by the Prime Minister of the Allied war aims. They may be summed up in the phrase "Hitler must go." With him must go the bullying mentality of the Nazis who have sought to dominate other peoples by force, and found brutal satisfaction in the persecution and torture of inoffensive citizens, It is desired to establish a new Europe, not on the basis of drawing new maps by victors, but a Europe with a spirit which will approach difficulties with goodwill and tolerance, and without fear of aggression. The Prime Minister paints a glowing picture of what the future might be if the task of the peace to follow this war is tackled in the right manner. That it will require a very considerable change in Germany's mental outlook is undeniable, that may be brought about if Germans can finally be convinced that war as an instrument of national policy is far too expensive in every term of value to be resorted to so lightly, as has been the case in is outbreak. The Reich has to be taught that it is not going to dominate Europe, or for that matter anything else. except its own country, and that the doctrines for which it stands involving the destruction of individual freedom and the subordination of the whole rights of man to a concept ant-like in its meanings, have to be discarded once and for all. Doubtless there are many Germans who would welcome their former freedom, others who, knowing little of it now, may yet come to appreciate it as their fathers did, but there is the completest certainty that the abolition of Herr Hitler and his system is the prerequisite to the re-establishment of good order in Europe.
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